TRICARE

TRICARE awards a new healthcare contract with an eye toward lessons learned

TRICARE awarded a new contract and realigned its management regions for healthcare.

Contracts/Awards

New Jersey National Guard/Master Sgt. Matt Hecht

National Guard recruitment challenges grow over refusals to comply with COVID vaccine mandate

Hiring/Retention

(U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Erick Requadt)

Senior Master Sgt. Paul Kalle, 723d Aircraft Maintenance Squadron first sergeant, speaks with a family during a Deployed Spouses Dinner Feb. 18, 2020, at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia. The monthly event is a free dinner at Georgia Pines Dining Facility designed as a ‘thank you’ for each families’ support and sacrifice while their spouse is deployed or on a remote assignment. The dinner, occurring on every third Tuesday of the month, provides an opportunity for spouses to interact with other families of deployed Airmen, key spouses and unit leadership, as well as provide a break for the spouse while military sponsor is deployed. The next Deployed Spouses Dinner will be March 17. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Erick Requadt)

LGBTQ youth with military parents are at risk of mental health issues, new study says

Defense

Sen. Rubio hammers continued TSP investment in China

Federal Newscast

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New locality-pay adjustments will impact thousands of federal workers

Federal Newscast

Former Trump aide in trouble for not turning over government emails on private account

Federal Newscast

TRICARE recipients will once again have to pay telehealth copays

Defense

Senate appropriators propose to repeal Hyde, add tens of billions to Defense budget

Congress

FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2020 file photo, postal workers load their mail delivery vehicles at the Panorama city post office in Los Angeles. The Nov. 3 election will test California's commitment to voting by mail as the nation's most populous state will offer fewer in-person polling places hoping it will convince more people to cast ballots from the safety of their mailboxes during a pandemic. If it doesn't work, the state could see long lines and frustrated voters on Election Day compounded by coronavirus protocols that will make voting in person slower in a year expected to draw a big turnout. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

Postal workers reminded they cannot profit from speeches, articles or books about official duties

Federal Newscast

DoD trying to educate service members about abortion options

Defense

TRICARE expanding services for new and pregnant parents

Defense

FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2019, file photo, pamphlets are shown in the clinic of Planned Parenthood of Utah in Salt Lake City. The Biden administration on Oct. 4, 2021, reversed a ban on abortion referrals by family planning clinics, lifting a Trump-era restriction as political and legal battles over abortion grow sharper from Texas to the U.S. Supreme Court. Groups representing the clinics say they hope the rule reversal leads to the return of hundreds of service providers that left the program to protest the Trump administration's policy. HHS has estimated that the upheaval led to as many as 180,000 unintended pregnancies. The clinics provide birth control and basic health care mainly to low-income women.(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Members of Congress want Pentagon to start covering birth control under TRICARE

In today’s Federal Newscast, lawmakers are trying to achieve cost parity under TRICARE to cover birth control.

Federal Newscast

Military uniform with stethoscope and identification tags. Overhead view in horizontal layout.

Exclusive

DHA’s updated plan to resize Military Health System is similar to pre-pandemic strategy

The strategy comes after DHA was forced to rethink its path forward after the COVID-19 pandemic showed stress in some private health care networks and…

Defense

Moving more TRICARE patients to civilian care would cause ‘significant harm,’ study finds

DoD Reporter's Notebook

New study, published this month in the journal Health Sciences Research, projected worse health outcomes for DoD beneficiaries even if as few as 10% of them were shifted to private-sector care.